The Design Fund
The Design Fund supports the acquisition of contemporary design objects at the V&A. The fund has enabled the Museum to purchase 12 objects by designers such as Joris Laarma…
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ThinkTank: The Future Designer
In 2008 the V&A launched a series of ThinkTanks on future-facing issues related to contemporary design and museum spaces. Leading designers and thinkers from across the UK …
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New directions in wallpaper design & art
Comtemporary wallpaper designers often break with the tradition of the reapeating pattern. 'Good taste' is no longer the issue: the kitsch, eccentric or ironic are all vali…
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'Swarm' chandelier by Zaha Hadid, 2006
The Swarm chandelier was designed by Zaha Hadid, one of the most highly regarded architects working today.
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'Cinderella' table, by Jeroen Verhoeven, 2005-6
The Cinderella Table is an exploration of the possibilities of CAD-CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing). Verhoeven's table is a reinterpretation of …
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Contemporary Art & Design in the Archive of Art & Design
The V&A's Archive of Art and Design holds the working papers of individual artists and designers, as well as the records of companies and associations involved in all aspec…
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Contemporary documentary photographers
Contemporary documentary photography is not a unified form but neither is it a defunct or endangered area of photographic practice. It is simply that its contexts, visual s…
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Science Surgery: The Contemporary Challenge
The Conservation Department defines contemporary as the last 10-20 years. The museum has many contemporary objects made of synthetic polymers. Unfortunately, some have crea…
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21 | Twenty One: 21 Designers for twenty-first century Britain
21 | TWENTY ONE showcases designers living and working in Britain who have come to prominence since the millennium. They lead public taste and critica…
Buy nowEvent - Art and Design 1900-2014 13/14
Mon 16 September 2013 11:00
YEAR COURSE: Explore the great design movements, practice and practitioners associated with the twentieth centuries
and discover the background to their genesis in the events that began around the year 1900.
Mondays, 16 September 2013 - 16 July 2014 (over 3 terms), 11.00-15.30
